Wednesday, 24 September 2014

The latest version of Nvidia Graphics driver for Linux which is Nvidia 343.22
has been released and is available for download. It comes with
plenty of fixes and changes. This article will guide you to install
Nvidia 343.22 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

Fixes

Added support for the following GPUs:

GeForce GTX 970GeForce GTX 980

Fixed a bug that prevented the "sync to vblank" setting from being honored for EGL applications.

Fixed a bug that could cause some OpenGL programs to encounter out of memory during a mode switch.

Fixed a bug that prevented the NVIDIA OpenGL driver from honoring the __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH environment variable.

Fixed
a bug that caused disabled displays to be implicitly included in the
target selection for some queries and assignments on the nvidia-settings
command line interface, in the absence of any explicit target
selection.

Added a new attribute to the NV-CONTROL API to query the current utilization of the video decode engine.

Fixed a bug where the Exchange Stereo Eyes setting in nvidia-settings didn't work in certain stereo configurations.

Worked
around a Unigine Heaven 3.0 shader bug which could cause corruption
when tessellation is enabled by implementing an application profile that
uses the "GLIgnoreGLSLExtReqs" setting. See the documentation for the
__GL_IGNORE_GLSL_EXT_REQS environment variable for more details.

Fixed a memory leak when destroying EGL surfaces.

Added support for multiple simultaneous EGL displays.

Removed
support for G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on
them. Ongoing support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as
fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases
through the end of 2019.

Fixed a bug that could cause
nvidia-installer to unsuccessfully attempt to delete the directory
containing precompiled kernel module interfaces, on packages prepared
with --add-this-kernel.

Updated nvidia-installer to log
uninstallation to a separate file from the installation log, and to
attempt uninstalling previous driver installations using the installer
program from the previous installation, when available.